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Colard, Hector
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur / Connected
Details
Life dates
Brussels, 1851 - Brussels - Ixelles, 1923
Activity
1874 - 1900 Bruxelles
° 16.6.1851. Textile merchant. Member of the ABP from 10.9.1874. In the ABP membership lists sometimes "M. Colard" or "H. Collard". In charge of the publication of the Bulletin de l’ABP from 1882 until 1892. Translated several works by H.P. Robinson, published by Gauthier-Villars in Paris in the 1880s and 1890s. Moonlight photographs in 1887. Played a prominent part in the creation of a photographic museum in the "Musée des Arts décoratifs et industriels" in Brussels in 1896. One of the two Belgian members of the Linked Ring, the English pictorialist circle, elected on 25.6.1892 under the pseudonym "Innocent Abroad". The other member was Alexandre [Albert Edouard Drains]. Member of the "Photo-Club de Paris". Colard’s broad international outlook made him an ideal intermediary from the intellectual and aesthetic standpoints between the different pictorialist trends of the French and English schools.
1901 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Ixelles
Still active in the early 1920s.
° 16.6.1851. Textile merchant. Member of the ABP from 10.9.1874. In the ABP membership lists sometimes "M. Colard" or "H. Collard". In charge of the publication of the Bulletin de l’ABP from 1882 until 1892. Translated several works by H.P. Robinson, published by Gauthier-Villars in Paris in the 1880s and 1890s. Moonlight photographs in 1887. Played a prominent part in the creation of a photographic museum in the "Musée des Arts décoratifs et industriels" in Brussels in 1896. One of the two Belgian members of the Linked Ring, the English pictorialist circle, elected on 25.6.1892 under the pseudonym "Innocent Abroad". The other member was Alexandre [Albert Edouard Drains]. Member of the "Photo-Club de Paris". Colard’s broad international outlook made him an ideal intermediary from the intellectual and aesthetic standpoints between the different pictorialist trends of the French and English schools.
1901 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Ixelles
Still active in the early 1920s.
Locations
1874 - 1900 Bruxelles
1901 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Ixelles
1901 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Ixelles
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1880; Brussels, 1883 (silver medal; also jointly with Otto Campo, diploma of honour); Antwerp, 1885 (bronze medal); Vienna, 1888; Brussels, 1889; London, 1889; Brussels, 1891; Tokyo, 1893; Paris, 1894; Brussels, 1895; London, 1895; Paris, 1895; London, 1896; Paris, 1896; Paris, 1897 (jury member).
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#757
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 14.4.2017, 19.7.2017 & 3.2.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 22.3.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 19.3.2021, 24.1.2022 & 28.2.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght